Harris Corp. won a contract to provide a back-up air traffic control for the Baghdad International Airport in Iraq, the company announced Thursday. Financial information regarding the contract was not disclosed. The Melbourne, Fla.-based company will provide Liberty-STAR voice communication and control system to support the airport’s primary Liberty-STAR VCCS and will assist air traffic [...]
BAE Systems has won nearly $23 million in Army delivery orders to provide thermal imagers and survivability seats for fighting vehicles. The company said it will deliver $13 million worth of its TIM 1500 thermal imaging technology. The imagers are used for target acquisition, long-range surveillance and situational awareness. The imagers are also designed to be [...]
Harris CapRock Communications announced that it has signed a two-year contract with Nabors Industries to provide satellite communications to land rigs and an office base in Iraq. With the agreement, Harris CapRock will use its Very Small Aperture Terminal services to enable Nabor’s personnel completing land drilling in remote areas of Iraq to connect with the [...]
Cubic Global Tracking Solutions, a division of Cubic Corp., has won a $3.5 million contract to aid the U.S. Army in the expansion of its next generation wireless communications solutions. The company is delivering its NGWC solution as a subcontractor to ARINC engineering services, according to the company announcement. “The expansion of the Cubic Global Tracking Solutions [...]
KBR has announced today it has been selected by the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office to provide life support, vehicle maintenance and healthcare services across Baghdad, Basra and Erbil in Iraq, and Kabul and Lashkar Gah in Afghanistan. The three-year contract requires KBR to provide such services as medical support, fleet management of armoured and [...]
On Sept. 1, President Barack Obama announced the end of U.S. combat operations in Iraq and declared it was time for America to “turn the page.” While a 50,000-strong force will remain in theater in an advisory role through the end of next year, training the nascent post-Saddam Iraqi military, the question remains: What will [...]
Just as the Pentagon feared that the money to fund troops was about to run out, the House Appropriations Committee passed a bill yesterday that allocated almost $59 billion towards funding for war efforts in Afghanistan and other programs. The House voted 308-114 on the legislation, which dedicates nearly $37 billion to the additional 30,000 [...]
